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Monday, October 20, 2014

Challenge #19--Midway Reflection & Voting Reminder

Hello everyone! We have reached the midway point of Challenge #19. The theme for this challenge is all about COURAGE. Today I am going to share a little introspection with you all that I am
also presenting on my own personal blog in my "Motivational Monday"
feature.

Characteristics of Courage

According to Google, courage is defined as:

the ability to do something that frightens one.

strength in the face of pain or grief.

Now, I could get into a whole exposition of what true courage entails but really that would be how I see courage being put into action.

The real question is how do you see courage as it applies to your own life? Is it:

Being afraid of something, yet choosing to act anyway?

Taking a stand when you know a cause is just?

Taking a risk and following the desires of your own heart?

Remaining steadfast in the face of adversity?

Listening to the guiding voice inside of you?

Facing difficulties in your life such as health problems and/or pain, with dignity, faith and strength?

You are the best person to determine how to be courageous in your own life. Whether it is putting into action one or more of the above points or coming up with one of your own.

When I wrote this, I was at the Doctor's office waiting to be seen. In my case it was just a routine appointment. However, as I sat there I wondered about the people in the surrounding rooms. Did they need courage to come out for their appointment today. Were some afraid of what they might hear? Were some already facing a battle? It truly made me think about all the ways that we face courage in our lives. Especially those who are facing illness.

While we may each approach courage in a different way, may each of us always have the courage to face all the challenges that may come our way.

To help inspire you down the path of courage, check out the wonderful
projects a few of my Design Team had the opportunity to create...

Lynda has chosen to use the image called Daisies.

For Monica's midway project, she has chosen to work with Catherine Hat Lady.

Vicky decided to create a card this time around and chose Across The Miles.

Julie chose to use the beautiful Nature's Butterfly image for her midway project.

Clicking on
the team members name (or in the case of our GDT, the blog name) will take you to their blog where you can check
out the details for their inspirational creations!

So if you haven't entered already, what are you waiting for? Create a project and/or post that is
positive AND relates to courage, provide an explanation of how your
project and/or post relates to the theme somewhere in your post or come
over and leave a comment with the explanation. Easy, peasy! You can enter our latest challenge by clicking HERE.

Also,
I know that the participants would love for you to go and pay them a visit. Remember
we're creating a Path of Positivity to follow one project at a time and
we'd love to see you somewhere on that route even if it is just by leaving a
comment on an entry from someone who has touched you somehow with their project and/or post!

If you are new to this unique challenge, you can find out the impetus
behind why I started it under the 'Introductions' tab and all the details you need to know in order to participate, in the 'Challenge Details' tab (both tabs located at the top of the blog).

Don't Forget...

You still have until 11:55 p.m. tonight, to vote on your favourite entry for Challenge #18.
Voting is quick, easy and painless so I hope
you will consider casting your vote if you haven't already. Don't
forget, if you leave a comment after voting, you have the opportunity to
walk away with a selection of digital papers created especially with your interests in mind.To check
out all those eligible and cast your vote, click HERE. Winners for challenge #18 will be posted next Monday.

LOOKING FOR ANOTHER MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE ON COURAGE?
If you need some additional motivation to help inspire you, I've
provided another sentiment on this month's theme (the first is available HERE), free for you to download.

This word art creation is in png format and published at 300 ppi. It is
quite large in order to accommodate different programs that people work
with. If you are a card maker you can always resize it smaller without
distorting the quality.

Click on the font name to take you to a download location. These fonts
were listed as free for commercial use at the time this project was
made.and as such, it is my understanding, that I am within my rights to
use these fonts in my creations and offer them to others. Please refer to
my full terms of service for what you can and cannot do with this
digital creation.

SUMMARY
Whether
you are new and need to familiarize yourself with all the details, or a
returning participant and just need to refresh yourself, you can
always find out everything
you need to know in order to enter this challenge in the
'Challenge Details' tab at the top of the page. You can enter the challenge by clicking HERE to take you to the current challenge post where you can also find a
quick summary of the details related to this challenge, towards the
bottom of the post.

GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY...

Please show your support to our fabulous sponsor by going over and
checking out their work and saying hi if you have the chance. This month Sparkle N Sprinkle, is our sole sponsor for all the main prizes...

However, our regular sponsors would also love a visit from you too:

That is me and I'd love for you to visit me on my personal blog.

If you ever have any questions be sure to EMAIL ME or just leave me a comment.

Challenge Badge

Current Challenge

Winners

The winners have been announced for Challenge #64. To see who won and who was chosen as a DT Delight, click HERE. To see the top picks, click HERE. To see all the details of the original challenge, click HERE.

To see a list of the winner's from all other previous challenges, click the "Challenge Win Information" tab at the top of this page.

Welcome to the Path of Positivity!

Hello everyone! My name is Lisa. In an effort to create a Path of Positivity for people to follow to bring sunshine to our corner of the blogging world, I have created a new type of challenge. To learn the impetus behind its creation, check out the 'Introduction' tab at the top of this page. You will also find tabs in the same location letting you know about the 'Challenge Details', 'Sponsors & Prize Information' and one for 'Challenge Win Information'.

I hope that you will consider adding your positive creations to the Path and join me in this new adventure! If you'd like to visit me on my personal blog click on the Decosse's Dynamite Doodles Badge below.

If you have any questions you can email me at pathofpositivity [at] gmail [dot] com (don't forget to remove brackets and spaces and replace at with the @ sign and a . for where it says dot. Unfortunately, we have to try to keep those spammers away by camouflaging our email addresses but such is life.

General Rules

While you can find out ALL the information you need to know in order to participate in the challenge by checking out the 'Challenge Details' tab at the top of the page, here is a refresher of the basics.

ALL entries must be positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature. Regular types of projects such as birthday cards, or other general type projects/posts will not qualify for the prizes. There MUST be an encouraging or motivational or inspirational vibe to the creation or post.

Each month there will also be an OPTIONAL twist to follow. Twists will strictly be for fun or to help you challenge yourself as a designer. There will be no prize associated with following the twist.

ALL entries that abide by the general rules of the challenge, will be eligible to receive both the Random Prize and the prize for Most Inspirational.

For both prizes, you can make any sort of project you'd like (i.e., scrapbooking page, card, tag, mixed media, digital, etc.). In fact, you don't have to create a project at all. You may just have something to say that is motivational or encouraging in some way .

You can link up a total of three (3) creations.

No backlinking.

Make sure when entering your project that you mention The Path of Positivityin your post with a link back to this blog.

Please remember to link directly to your blog post where we can see your creation, and not just the generic link to your blog.